I bet that everyone's heard that wearing SPF 30 (or higher) no matter the weather and no matter the season is super important, and I've been doing that almost without thinking for nearly all my life. In fact, if someone tells me that they don't wear sunscreen on a daily basis, I think it's super weird. But on a camping trip not too long, even though I applied my sun protection religiously, at the end of the four days, I discovered that I had missed something that was right in front of my eyes: my lips. My face and other appendages had gotten away unscathed, but boy were my lips in pain. Not only were they red as cherry tomatoes, peeling, perpetually dry, and cracking, but they stung. It hurt to eat, drink, or even lick my lips. Putting on lip products to help ended up in an uneven mess, and lip color was completely out of the question. Eventually, my lips went back to normal after a week, but I have learned my lesson since 1) I am addicted to lip products 2) I was completely miserable.
So if you're reading this right now, make sure you didn't skip your lips! Make sure that during the day, you use something with some SPF and avoid a painful week with clown-red lips, 'kay?
Some of my personal picks as of this moment:
. Nivea's A Kiss of Smoothness Hydrating Lip Care SPF 10 (also in a SPF 15 version)
. EOS (Evolution of Smooth) Lemon Drop Lip Balm (SPF 15)
. Maybelline Baby Lips in Quenched (SPF 20, and I know I wrote something about bad experiences with Baby Lips, but this specific flavor actually outperformed the others that I've tried and I find it quite nice.)
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